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The Moral Divide Between High- and Low-Status Animals: The Role of Human Supremacy Beliefs
Anthrozoös ( IF 1.6 ) Pub Date : 2021-06-03 , DOI: 10.1080/08927936.2021.1926712
Victoria C. Krings 1 , Kristof Dhont 1 , Alina Salmen 1
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ABSTRACT

People endorsing stronger beliefs in human supremacy over animals typically show less moral concern for animals. Yet, how people think about different types of animals also depends on the role of the animals in society. For instance, people are less concerned about food animals than about companion animals. It is unclear, however, how human supremacy beliefs relate to this perceived moral divide between different types of animals. In two surveys of British adults (n = 196 and n = 256), we tested whether human supremacy beliefs are associated with a greater perceived moral divide between high-status animals such as companion animals and low-status animals such as food animals. In both studies, participants rated the extent to which they felt obligated to show moral concern to a range of animals and completed the human supremacy beliefs scale. As expected, the results showed that participants felt more moral concern for companion animals (e.g., dogs and cats) and appealing wild animals (e.g., dolphins and chimps) than for food animals (e.g., pigs and turkeys) and unappealing wild animals (e.g., frogs and bats). Critically, confirming our hypotheses, this moral divide between high- and low-status animals was significantly larger for those holding stronger human supremacy beliefs. Furthermore, the effect of human supremacy beliefs remained after controlling for gender, age, diet, and social dominance orientation. These findings suggest that beliefs in human supremacy over animals may serve as a legitimizing strategy to preserve not only the existing human–animal hierarchy but also greater hierarchical divides between animals.



中文翻译:

高地位和低地位动物之间的道德鸿沟:人类至上主义信仰的作用

摘要

支持人类高于动物的更强烈信念的人通常对动物的道德关注较少。然而,人们如何看待不同类型的动物也取决于动物在社会中的作用。例如,与伴侣动物相比,人们不太关心食用动物。然而,尚不清楚人类至上的信念如何与不同类型动物之间的这种感知到的道德分歧相关联。在对英国成年人的两项调查中(n  = 196 和n = 256),我们测试了人类至上的信念是否与伴侣动物等地位高的动物和食用动物等地位低的动物之间更大的道德鸿沟有关。在这两项研究中,参与者对他们感到有义务对一系列动物表现出道德关怀的程度进行评分,并完成了人类至上信念量表。正如预期的那样,结果显示参与者对伴侣动物(例如狗和猫)和有吸引力的野生动物(例如海豚和黑猩猩)比食用动物(例如猪和火鸡)和没有吸引力的野生动物(例如、青蛙和蝙蝠)。至关重要的是,证实了我们的假设,对于那些持有更强的人类至上主义信念的人来说,高地位和低地位动物之间的这种道德鸿沟要大得多。此外,在控制了性别、年龄、饮食和社会支配倾向后,人类至上主义信仰的影响仍然存在。这些发现表明,人类高于动物的信念可以作为一种合法化策略,不仅可以保留现有的人类-动物等级制度,还可以保护动物之间更大的等级划分。

更新日期:2021-06-03
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